About the Author

Daniel Kahneman is a Senior Scholar at Princeton University, and
Emeritus Professor of Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Economics in 2002.

Reviews

There have been many good books on human rationality and
irrationality, but only one masterpiece. That masterpiece is Daniel
Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.Kahneman, a winner of the
Nobel Prize for economics, distils a lifetime of research into an
encyclopedic coverage of both the surprising miracles and the
equally surprising mistakes of our conscious and unconscious
thinking. He achieves an even greater miracle by weaving his
insights into an engaging narrative that is compulsively readable
from beginning to end. My main problem in doing this review was
preventing family members and friends from stealing my copy of the
book to read it for themselves...this is one of the greatest and
most engaging collections of insights into the human mind I have
read -- William Easterly * Financial Times *
Absorbing, intriguing...By making us aware of our minds' tricks,
Kahneman hopes to inspire individuals and organisations to identify
strategies to outwit them -- Jenni Russell * Sunday Times *
Profound . . . As Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of
the universe and Darwin knocked humans off their biological perch,
Mr. Kahneman has shown that we are not the paragons of reason we
assume ourselves to be * The Economist *
[Thinking, Fast and Slow] is wonderful, of course. To anyone
with the slightest interest in the workings of his own mind, it is
so rich and fascinating that any summary would seem absurd --
Michael Lewis * Vanity Fair *
It is an astonishingly rich book: lucid, profound, full of
intellectual surprises and self-help value. It is consistently
entertaining and frequently touching, especially when Kahneman is
recounting his collaboration with Tversky . . . So impressive is
its vision of flawed human reason that the New York Times
columnist David Brooks recently declared that Kahneman and
Tversky's work 'will be remembered hundreds of years from now,' and
that it is 'a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves.'
They are, Brooks said, 'like the Lewis and Clark of the mind' . . .
By the time I got to the end of Thinking, Fast and Slow, my
skeptical frown had long since given way to a grin of intellectual
satisfaction. Appraising the book by the peak-end rule, I
overconfidently urge everyone to buy and read it. But for those who
are merely interested in Kahenman's takeaway on the Malcolm
Gladwell question it is this: If you've had 10,000 hours of
training in a predictable, rapid-feedback environment-chess,
firefighting, anesthesiology-then blink. In all other cases, think
* The New York Times Book Review *
[Kahneman's] disarmingly simple experiments have profoundly changed
the way that we think about thinking . . . We like to see ourselves
as a Promethean species, uniquely endowed with the gift of reason.
But Mr. Kahneman's simple experiments reveal a very different mind,
stuffed full of habits that, in most situations, lead us astray --
Jonah Lehrer * The Wall Street Journal *
This is a landmark book in social thought, in the same league as
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith and The
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud -- Nassim Nicholas
Taleb, author of 'The Black Swan'
Daniel Kahneman is among the most influential psychologists in
history and certainly the most important psychologist alive
today...The appearance of Thinking, Fast and Slow is a major
event -- Steven Pinker, author of * The Language Instinct *
Daniel Kahneman is one of the most original and interesting
thinkers of our time. There may be no other person on the planet
who better understands how and why we make the choices we make. In
this absolutely amazing book, he shares a lifetime's worth of
wisdom presented in a manner that is simple and engaging, but
nonetheless stunningly profound. This book is a must read for
anyone with a curious mind -- Steven D. Levitt, co-author of
'Freakonomics'
This book is a tour de force by an intellectual giant; it is
readable, wise, and deep. Buy it fast. Read it slowly and
repeatedly. It will change the way you think, on the job, about the
world, and in your own life -- Richard Thaler, co-author of
'Nudge'
[A] tour de force of psychological insight, research explication
and compelling narrative that brings together in one volume the
high points of Mr. Kahneman's notable contributions, over five
decades, to the study of human judgment, decision-making and choice
. . . Thanks to the elegance and force of his ideas, and the
robustness of the evidence he offers for them, he has helped us to
a new understanding of our divided minds-and our whole selves --
Christoper F. Chabris * The Wall Street Journal *Thinking, Fast and Slow is a masterpiece - a brilliant and
engaging intellectual saga by one of the greatest psychologists and
deepest thinkers of our time. Kahneman should be parking a Pulitzer
next to his Nobel Prize -- Daniel Gilbert, Professor of Psychology,
Harvard University, author of 'Stumbling on Happiness', host of the
award-winning PBS television series 'This Emotional Life'
A major intellectual event . . . The work of Kahneman and Tversky
was a crucial pivot point in the way we see ourselves -- David
Brooks * The New York Times *
Kahneman provides a detailed, yet accessible, description of the
psychological mechanisms involved in making decisions -- Jacek
Debiec * Nature *
This book is one of the few that must be counted as mandatory
reading for anyone interested in the Internet, even though it
doesn't claim to be about that. Before computer networking got
cheap and ubiquitous, the sheer inefficiency of communication
dampened the effects of the quirks of human psychology on macro
scale events. No more. We must now confront how we really are in
order to make sense of our world and not screw it up. Daniel
Kahneman has discovered a path to make it possible -- Jaron Lanier,
author of You Are Not a Gadget
For anyone interested in economics, cognitive science, psychology,
and, in short, human behavior, this is the book of the year. Before
Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics, there was Daniel Kahneman
who invented the field of behavior economics, won a Nobel...and now
explains how we think and make choices. Here's an easy choice: read
this * The Daily Beast *
I will never think about thinking quite the same. [Thinking,
Fast and Slow] is a monumental achievement -- Roger Lowenstein
* Bloomberg/Businessweek *
A terrific unpicking of human rationality and irrationality - could
hardly have been published at a better moment. Kahnemann is the
godfather of behavioural economics, and this distillation of a
lifetime's thinking about why we make bad decisions - about
everything from money to love - is full of brilliant anecdote and
wisdom. It is Kahnemann's belief that anyone who thinks they know
exactly what is going on hasn't understood the question; as such
it's the perfect gift for opinionated family members everywhere. --
Tim Adams * Observer Books of the Year *
The book I most want to be given is Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman. I'm a speedy thinker myself, so am hoping to be
endorsed in that practice. -- Sally Vickers * Observer Books of the
Year *
In this comprehensive presentation of a life's work, the world's
most influential psychologist demonstrates that irrationality is in
our bones, and we are not necessarily the worse for it -- 10 Best
Books of 2011 * New York Times *
Selected by the New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of
2011 * New York Times *

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